Notice: Wal-Mart is Public Space
Sheriff sorry for misinterpreting orderThe Wayne County sheriff has apologized for misinterpreting a judge's order that he originally said forced him to send deputies to Wal-Mart to find potential jurors.
The order simply required Sheriff Carey Winders to send deputies to a public place. Their search at the discount store on Nov. 26 -- the day before Thanksgiving -- resulted in confrontations with people shopping for Christmas gifts.
'I will accept the responsibility for them going there,' Winder said Tuesday. 'But we would've had to go to Target, the mall or a public place, like the library, to get them. The bottom line is that he didn't say for us to go to Wal-Mart but to a public place.'
* Ray, 12/05/2003 12:44:04 PM